Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Look for Companies That Strike First Head-to-head trials, whether they're run by companies or by third parties, can be scary. But the way to make big money is by selling drugs that offer superior benefits, so investors should welcome the onslaught of upcoming comparative trial data.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Passes! Here's Where to Invest Now Some healthy suggestions for your portfolio.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	Here's That Critical Merck Info You Missed Announcing clinical trial failures in a FAQ? Really?
The Motley Fool September 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Potential Blockbuster, No Me-Too About It A diabetes-fighting duo do it right this time.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Gilead Sciences Killed It The virus-killer kills analysts' expectations, as well. The company blows through analysts' expectations with its third-quarter results.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	It'll Be a Blockbuster! High Fives All Around, Right? Sanofi-aventis releases top-line data for its phase 3 diabetes drug candidate, lixisenatide. The trial was a success, but don't pencil it in as a blockbuster just yet.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfile Pfizer Under "Potential" Researchers reported promising finding from a clinical trial of Pfizer's new drug, CP-870,893, in pancreatic cancer patients in the most recent issue of the journal Science.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	No Enhance-ment From Zetia Merck and Schering report bad news, but how much will it affect sales? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Clinical Trial Results Fail to Inspire Inspire Pharma gets cut in half after a cystic fibrosis trial failure.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2010 Brian Orelli	Abbott Labs Loves Merck More Than Gilead Its HIV trial seems to suggest so.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	You Must Realize This Drug Works by Now Vertex concludes its phase 3 trials with another win.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Stimulus Could Be Bitter Pill for Some Investors Health-care shareholders need to watch provisions of the stimulus bill closely.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	Know Your Drug Stock ABCs: Part 2 Investing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries can be difficult. Here are terms investors should know to better understand how the clinical trial process involved with bringing a drug to market works.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2010 Luke Timmerman	Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug And in the toughest patients to treat, too.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Brian Orelli	We Hate Your Drug. And That's a Good Thing. This one's a pain for the clinical trial participants.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2011 Brian Orelli	Merck's Bleeding Out Vorapaxar caused it.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Change the Game? Change the Rules! There are ways for investors to get around Obama's plan to lower health care costs. Investing in drug companies in this time of "change" doesn't have to be scary. You've just got to find rule breaker-type drugmakers, because playing by the rules isn't going to cut it anymore.
BusinessWeek May 20, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	Pfizer's Kindler on Health-Care Reform and the Wyeth Deal Pfizer's CEO discusses its acquisition of Wyeth and its plan to provide some drugs for free to those without jobs and insurance.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	For Blockbuster Cancer Drugs, Approvals Are the Easy Part Don't get too excited. As an investor, you can lower your risk by investing in cancer drug companies after a clinical trial success but before an FDA approval, but you'll also reduce your reward.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2011 Brian Orelli	Different Name, Same Great Results Incyte and Novartis' ruxolitinib passes another clinical trial.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	5 Stocks to Consider Before Buying Pfizer If you like Pfizer, you may like these five insurance and medical stocks better.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Costly Missed Connection Dimebon's phase 3 failure costs Medivation shareholders 67%.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2010 Brian Orelli	Warning: Potential Anemic Growth Ahead Anemia-drug makers get more scrutiny from the FDA.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Hot Dog! No Competition for Now Roche's diabetes pipeline drug is delayed.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Brand-Name Patents: Going, Going, Gone in 2010 Generic drug competition is coming for Lipitor, Plavix, and others.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	Here Comes Another Oral MS Drug Good for Teva, bad for the rest.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2010 Ryan McBride	Synta Pharma CEO Trumpets New Top Cancer Drug Synta Pharmaceuticals has been climbing back from one of the Boston area's highest-profile clinical trial failures of 2009.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	This NICE Deal Could Foreshadow 2011 Value-based pricing is coming. The only way to encourage lower drug costs is to get the end user to pay the cost directly.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2010 Brian Orelli	Teva Gets Less Generic The generic-drug maker makes a major push into branded-drug development.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	5 Biotechs With Upcoming Clinical Trial Results Investors willing to stay in these stocks a little while could see substantial gains well ahead of FDA approvals.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2010 Brian Orelli	Save Your Money, Dendreon As much as doctors would like to prescribe Dendreon's Provenge for their patients, manufacturing limitations will keep demand outpacing supply for awhile.
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 Weintraub & Wechsler	The New Prominence of Comparative Drug Trials Pharmaceutical makers, once wary of head-to-head trials, now embrace them as marketing tools.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	2 Days, 1 Blockbuster, Fate Unknown GlaxoSmithKline heads before a marathon two-day Food and Drug Administration advisory panel review of its diabetes drug Avandia.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Brian Orelli	It's the Combo That Matters for Gilead The same efficacy with fewer pills is the headline, but it's the understory that makes Gilead Sciences' latest clinical trial success important for investors.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2009 Brian Orelli	2 Virus Killers Are Better Than 1 Glaxo brings Pfizer under its HIV wing.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Diabetes Drug Development Pops and Drops When companies present at a major meeting, there's bound to be both.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	The Next Amgen? Not Yet. Amylin Pharmaceuticals is in much the same situation as Amgen is in: relatively flat sales, and the potential for a nice boost from a Food and Drug Administration approval shortly. But that's where the comparison ends.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Head to Head: Merck vs. Itself Merck's HIV drug doesn't work as well when taken once daily.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Investors Jump for Yervoy! The Food and Drug Administration approval of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy came with some surprising labeling news.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2011 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Lives: Here's Where to Invest State of the Union turned investment thesis regarding health insurance companies.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Prices Up, but Don't Read Too Much Into It AARP is out with its annual report on the cost of medications, and it's more of the same: bad news if you're a consumer, but good news if you're invested in drugmakers.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Cocktail for Drug Investors Drug cocktails aren't just for alchemists anymore. In many diseases they've become big business, and pharmaceutical investors would be smart to pay attention.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Risky Deal, but at Least It's Cheap Glaxo licenses a preclinical compound from Regulus.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Innovators Will Rule the Economic Crisis Roche's CEO says two areas of health care can prosper. I agree.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	The Drug Passed, but the Stock Fell? Regeneron only bats .500.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 Brian Orelli	No Nail Yet, but Vertex Creeps Up to Merck's Coffin Merck's hepatitis C data doesn't look as good as Vertex's.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Look Out for Big Growth From This Drug Regeneron's ultra-orphan drug Arcalyst takes a step forward toward a wider audience.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Brian Orelli	Don't Have a Stroke Over Merck's Heart Drug Welcome to pharma investing.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Sales Down! Should We Celebrate? Amylin won't have completed results for a trial comparing Bydureon to Victoza until next year. But until that data is in, it might not be as easy to get the patients back as Amylin is making it out to be.